A Classics Challenge - June Prompt

Select a quote from the classic you're currently reading and create a visual tour.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Chapter 1 - Outside Dorlcote Mill

 William Willoughby

" - borne along to the town of St Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves between the low wooded hill and the river brink, tinging the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of the February sun."

J.M.W Turner

"...and everywhere the hedgerows are studded with trees: the distant ships seem to be lifting their masts and stretching their red-brown sails close among the branches of the spreading ash."

J.M.W Turner

" How lovely the little river is with its dark, changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank and listen to its low placid voice, as to the voice of one who is deaf and loving. I remember those large dipping willows...I remember the stone bridge..."

John Constable

"And this is Dorlcote Mill..................perhaps the chill of the damp season adds a charm to the trimly-kept, comfortable dwelling-house, as old as the elms and chestnuts that shelter it from the northern blast............As I look at the full stream, the vivid grass, the delicate bright-green powder softening the outline of the great trunks and branches that gleam from under the purple boughs, I am in love with moistness, and envy the white ducks that are dipping their heads far into the water here among the withes - "

John Constable

"Look at their grand shaggy feet that seem to grasp the firm earth, at the patient strength of their necks bowed under the heavy collar, at the mighty muscles of their struggling haunches! I should like well to hear them neigh over their hardly-earned feed of corn, and see them, with their moist necks freed from the harness, dipping their eager nostrils into the muddy pond."

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